Benjamin Harrison

"You are Indianians, some of you by birth; some of you, like me, by choice. You are Republicans; you have opposed always the doctrine of State's rights; you have believed and gloried in the great citizenship that embraces all the people of all the States. You believe that this Government is not a confederation to be dissolved at the will of any member of it, but a Nation having the inherent right, by arms, if need be, to perpetuate its beneficent existence."


Data Analysis

The above graph shows the frequency of the most common outlier words used by Harrison in his speeches. These are words that appeared in his 100 most used words list, but not in the list of 100 most used words in the English language. We see words like "country," "citizen," and "republican" were especially common because Harrison was a republican politician. We also see Indiana appear quite frequently because many of the speeches that we have from Harrison took place in Indiana. The frequencies of the words cheers and applause are actually because the transcriptions we used of Harrisons speeches would write out when the crowd applauded. Harrison did not say these words that frequently but this does show the relative frequency of applause or cheering in his speeches.

The above graph shows the overall frequency of the most common English words as opposed to their frequency in Harrison's speeches. We see that the words "and," "to," "I," "this," and "have" are much more frequent in Harrison's speeches than in general language. We also see that the words "he" and "on" are much less frequently used in Harrison's speeches. Other than that, none of these results are especially surprising.